L'emigrante
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Genre: Feature film
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Year: 1915
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Runtime: 00:23:35
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Description: An elderly man decides to leave his small town to seek his fortune in South America and ensure a better life for his wife and daughter. The film displays the difficult stages of preparation for the travel abroad: the sale of the poor furniture to raise the money for the trip, the purchase in the marketplace of the needed working tools, the departure attended by the entire village. The journey by ship, despite the poor conditions of the third-class travelers, is full of hope, however, reached his destination, the immigrant realizes that for a man of his age to find work is not that simple. The film, played by the great stage actor Ermete Zacconi, is one of the best examples of Italian realism in the silent era of cinema. The video is a copy from the film (which is only a fragment of the original film) print held by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema: 35mm, positive, acetate, 486 m, 24' at 18 fps, black and white, Italian intertitles, silent.
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Keywords: Febo Mari; Segundo De Chomón; Ermete Zacconi; Valentina Frascaroli; Felice Minotti / drama / emigration; leaving home; Europeans in South America; migration to South America; workplace accident
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Provider: Museo Nazionale del Cinema
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Rights: In Copyright - EU Orphan Work
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Production company: Itala Film, Turin
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Colour: Black & White
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Sound: Without sound
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Collection: Museo Nazionale del Cinema Film Collection
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Language: it